Researchers at the Cereal Disease Laboratory test small grain cultivars and experimental lines to determine their resistance to leaf and stem rust.  In seedling tests in the greenhouse, we inoculate cultivars and lines with selected leaf and stem rust races in an effort to determine the presence of rust resistance genes. In adult field tests, we artificially inoculate nurseries with rust and then rate cultivars and lines on their rust resistance.

Ug99 - field evaluations in Kenya and greenhouse evaluations

Regional Germplasm Observation (RGON)

Northern Regional Winter Wheat (NRPN)
Southern Regional Winter Wheat (SRPN)

Uniform Eastern Soft Red Winter Wheat (UESRWWN)
Uniform Southern Soft Red Winter Wheat (USSRWWN)

Hard Red Spring Wheat Uniform Regional (URN)

Gulf - Atlantic (GAWN)

Mason Dixon (MD)

Southern University Preliminary Yield (SUNPRE)

Western Regional Uniform Cooperative Nurseries (WRN)

Wheat Cultivar Leaf Rust Ratings and Gene Postulations

• 2008 Kansas Wheat Performance Test
• 2008 Soft Red Winter Wheat
• 2008 Hard Red Spring Wheat
• 2007 Hard Red Winter Wheat

*For other agronomic and disease observations visit the Hard Winter Wheat Regional Nursery Program (NRPN, RGON, SRPN, and WPRPN) website